Bioengineering blooms at Harvard thanks to learning lessons from nature

After long lagging behind MIT and other schools in engineering, Harvard has been beefing up its engineering research efforts over the last 10 years. A major area of growth has been at the interface between engineering and biology. Harvard’s bioengineering faculty members, many of them young recruits, span disciplines and draw on biology, engineering, computer science, and materials science. Some look to nature, which has evolved ways to create complex materials and organisms, to guide their efforts in coming up with novel materials and devices. Here are a few examples.

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